Van der Laan’s new man!

From European Voice's Entre-Nous column

4/21/04, 5:00 PM CET

Updated 4/23/14, 8:29 PM CET

It isn’t only the European Union that will remember 2004 as the year of enlargement. EN offers its hearty congratulations to former Dutch MEP and now D66 Liberal parliamentarian Lousewies van der Laan and her husband, Dennis Hesseling. The pair have ‘enlarged’ their family with the birth of a son, Helix Karel Menno.

Little Helix, born on 5 April, weighed in at 3.6 kilogrammes and measured 52 centimetres on arrival.

Given that his 38-year-old mum is now on maternity leave, we trust there’ll be no more table-top dancing for Lousewies – for a while, at least…

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